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From: bowen@cs.Buffalo.EDU (Devon E Bowen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: Modula2 front end for gcc?
Message-ID: <8016@cs.Buffalo.EDU>
Date: 18 Jul 89 17:36:55 GMT
References: <INFO-M2%89071714450923@UCF1VM>
Reply-To: bowen@sunybcs.UUCP (Devon E Bowen)
Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science
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In article <INFO-M2%89071714450923@UCF1VM> Modula2 List <INFO-M2%UCF1VM.bitnet@lilac.berkeley.edu> writes:
>  -Variables of type DESCRIPTOR will be records containing the
>variable's type, location and size.  Variables of type RECORD and
>ARRAY will require additional type information.  Fields for element
>width and type can be added for ARRAYs. RECORD types can be
>implemented as a linked list of DESCRIPTOR.

This is better if the implementation were modula-2 on both sides,
but the purpose of adding this feature in our case is to link with
C libraries. And C expects parameters to be call by value. So
descriptors are not possible.


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